1775. He then proceeded to studies abroad. He spent a short time in London, where he attended the lectures of Dr William Hunter. He next visited Paris and on 17 September 1757 entered Leiden University where he formed a friendship with two famous anatomists, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and Petrus Camper. However his foreign studies were principally prosecuted at Berlin, where he worked under the celebrated Professor Meckel, in whose house he lived. Alexander spent some time in Edinburgh during early 1757 in order to fill the place of his father, who was confined to the house by illness. He finally was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 May 1758 and as a Fellow on 1 May 1759. He had four children: Isabella Monro who married Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Cott of Gala. She died in 1801. Alexander Monro (tertius), 2nd of Craiglockhart and Cockburn. (1773–1859). David Monro (1776–1843). Charlotte Monro (1782–1822). Alexander Monro tertius Alexander Monro tertius followed his father and grandfather in becoming professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. Amongst his publications are Outlines of the Anatomy of the Human Body (1811) in four volumes and "Elements of Anatomy" (1825) in two volumes. He was Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians from 1809 to 1819 and President in 1827 and 1828. He was also on the Council of the Wernerian Natural History Society of which he became a member in 1811. He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1798 and at his death was father of the Society. He had 12 children: Alexander Monro (1803–1867), was a Captain in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), married Elizabeth, daughter of C. B Scott of Woll. James Monro (1806–1870), was a Surgeon-Major in the Coldstream Guards, married Maria, daughter of Colonel Duffin. Henry Monro (1810–1869), married Jane Christie. One of their sons was Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet Sir David Monro (1813–1877), married Dinah, daughter of John Secker. They had five sons including Charles John Monro. William Munro (1815–1881), a Major in the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet. Charles Monro (1818–1820). Maria Monro (1801–1884), married John Inglis of Auchinderry and Redhall. Catherine Monro (1804–1868), married Sir John James Steuart of Allanbank. Georgiana Monro (1808–1868), married George Skene of Rubislaw. Harriet Monro (1816 - 1898), married her cousin Alex